12:19 pm Monday 24th November 2025
kitty cat acquisition!!!!
so as you can probably see from my website, the entire time I have had an "all hail jerry" button that goes to my #jerry tag on my personal tumblr. jerry is an orange cat that does not actually belong to me, but one of my neighbours (we'll call her M) who lives in the same flats as me, but M lives in the flat on the end, where as me and my mum live in the flat in the middle. so I saw jerry every day and pet him every day and whenever his owner would go on a trip, we would take care of him until she got back. I love him lots and lots and lots. I even took him to the vet myself once when M wasn't able to!
welll…it seems that now I will be owning jerry as my own cat!!! we haven't done the full owner transfer yet and jerry is still living over at M's flat, but it will be happening VERY soon, as M must move out by January so that the real-estate can fix up that flat's mold problem, which requires ripping up the floorboards and such. the mold problem occurred when M's kitchen pipes busted open for some reason and her entire place started to flood :( it took us too long to figure out how to turn the entire flat's water off, but when we did, there was like 1-3 inches of water in the flat. which you can imagine cause a lot of fucking problems. including BLACK MOLD!!!!! the mold is making M really sick (and it's not good for her pets either) so she needs to move. but the real-estate is specifically MAKING her move so they can address the issues with the flat first, which will probably take a while, meaning there cannot be a tenant living there while they fix it up.
unfortunately, as a result of all of this, M isn't sure she can take Jerry with her, as she is actually really allergic to cats despite owning jerry, and on top of the mold making her sick, Jerry is ALSO making her sick, too. she asked me if I wanted to take Jerry and I immediately said yes! because the other option was giving jerry away to someone else, and that idea made me wanna cry because...jerry is a positive being in my life and if he were to leave and go to SOMEONE ELSE I would be incredibly upset and distraught. it would be different if M moved out and took Jerry with her- at least I would know that Jerry was with someone he knew and loved. But jerry would be going to a stranger if I didn't take him. So my mind was already made up on what was going to happen. my mum doesn't like cats, though and the only way I got her to agree to letting me keep jerry in the flat was if I promised to try and get enough money to move ^^; which requires me getting a job which is notoriously difficult in my town to do (I have not succeeded once. insert melting emoji here). but some other people are gonna be helping me out so I have a better chance of getting a job and such, so not all hope is lost! my mum is willing to tolerate a cat in the house if she knows that it's temporary and not permanent. and i'll also be helping to make sure that jerry and mum get along and that whatever issues my mum is worried about with jerry will be stuff I can figure out the solution to.
but uh yeaahh. jerry acquisition!!!! my dream cat!!!! my baby boy!!!!!!!!!!!! this is the best thing that has ever happened to me!!!!!!! now I don't have to feel weird that i'm gonna have a full on jerry shrine in my website for someone else's cat because it WON'T be someone else's cat...he'll be mine!!! i'm also making a tumblr blog for jerry but won't be posting on it or sharing it until Jerry is legally mine (after we've both signed the ownership transfer forms). but once he's mine i'll share the blog with you guys on here and i'll be writing about the things i'm doing to make him happy and such. I've never owned a mammal as a pet before but I know cat body language from interacting with jerry and know his personality and have done a LOT of research about cats long before I ever thought jerry would be my silly little boy, so I feel like i'm not super clueless about stuff. i'll just be patient and careful and do what I can to make jerry happy 🧡

